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Philadelphia Falling in Population Ranks?

This is completely unsurprising. Census estimates are saying that the Washington area has passed the Philadelphia area in population. While Philadelphia and surrounding suburbs have been growing, other cities have been growing faster. DC has apparently passed us, and Miami is expected to this year, followed by Atlanta by 2021 (Granted, we’ll have another census by then)

What’s interesting is the populations in relative to city and metro area. Philadelphia’s population at the 2010 census was 1,526,006. At that time, Washington had 658,893, Atlanta had 456,002, and Miami had 430,332. Those three combined had 1,545,227, marginally bigger than Philadelphia. All of them in terms of metro area are at 6,000,000. Therefore, Philadelphia’s suburbs have far less people than those of DC, Atlanta, and Miami.

Bear in mind that these are estimates. Remember back when people said that Phoenix passed Philadelphia in population? Yeah, didn’t happen. Granted, that may very well be inevitable, but who knows?